From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 10:14:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6D914E87; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:14:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-wat.sentex.net [209.167.248.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA19779; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:14:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990810131923.042d25e0@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:27:30 -0400 To: vallo@matti.ee From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: AHC errors. Bad disk or bad firmware, or bug in driver ? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990810095906.A2512@myhakas.matti.ee> References: <199908091705.LAA29115@panzer.kdm.org> <4.1.19990808234210.03c6b2d0@granite.sentex.ca> <199908091705.LAA29115@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> > If it was simply a media error, would it not either recover or panic ? Why >> > the seemingly endless loop of "Target Busy" >> >> It smells like bogus firmware, but it's kinda hard to say. You might check >> to see whether there is new firmware available for that disk. Quantum has >> firmware and firmware loaders on their ftp site. > >I do have two of these drives and upgraded the firmware quite a while >ago, had problems with older firmware, possibly relative to my ncr based >controller. For now I'm running with these about a year without any >problems. For what it's worth, they have working 64 tags also. I'm >satisfied :) Hi, Thanks for the response. The drive had been running fine for almost a year as well until those errors. The server is relativly busy pushing out 40K of email a day as well as user web pages. I still have the drive, but its not being used in the server as I put our 'cold' spare in until I can sort out what we will do for a better overall plan with RAID in a month or so. When that happens, I will try and get a better look at the drive and perhaps upgrade its firmware and reformat etc. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message